Acoustic guitars are gateway instruments, opening up musical paths for other instruments. They are also portable, making it easy to learn songs on the guitar and bring it along to play with others at jams. When you learn the basics of an acoustic, the entire world of string instruments opens up for you

Electric guitars are guitars with bite. Although the structural premise of any of these instruments is essentially the same, nothing growls and riffs quite like an axe on fire. The muscular rhythms and searing riffs of an electric guitar can take any song to another stratosphere.